Tell a friend about this book...

A young English clerk fakes his own suicide to escape a boring job-then reappears as a Romanian refugee from a Russian trawler fleet. But from the moment Adrian Gurney, alias lonel Petrescu, is "discovered" on the coast, he is caught in a sinister and unexpected intrigue: He is recruited to hunt down Alwyn Rory, fugitive and reputed traitor. Gur... more »ney manages to locate Rory's hiding place and the two soon find themselves on the run together, as the CIA, the KGB, and MI5 close in.......« less